Monday, January 30, 2006
reunion dinner '06
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!
ok. this is the requisite chinese new year post.
and of course, this chinese new year in vancouver is far different from chinese new year back in singapore. for one, there's no need to go visiting relatives (what relatives do i have here anyway?), or in my case, helping my mom prepare our home, lunch, dinner etc etc etc for the relatives to come a'visiting. no family, no parents, no cousins, no joanne and denise to bug as i always do when they come round on cny, and we all hide in the guest room while my dad yells for me to "come say hi to all the uncles and aunties" and to help do this and tt and this and tt. no long-lost uncles and aunties, from those tt i am so fond of to those tt show their faces once a year in the mere name of "tradition" (on a side note: i don't believe tt there is such a thing as "too busy" to visit someone more than once a year. there is however, such a thing as "the value of family", which unfortunately a lot of people don't seem to consider as important now). and yeah, the requisite no ang paos, no bak kwa, no pineapples tarts and kueh lapis. haha, not tt i am a big fan of everything, and i can live without the ang paos, but i do miss my cashewnut candy. :(
nonetheless, this cny though different, was in no way incomparable to my cny back home. instead of family, you have friends. and even with no superwoman mom to oversee evrything, we still had some pretty awesome organisers and cooks. like alvin who almost singlehandedly oversaw everything from the buying of all the food to the making of the yusheng (yes, we had yusheng with heaploads of AWESOME fresh vancouver salmon!!!), to siang sheng and his vermicelli, to boon ping and his hidden talent for making fried glutinous rice to which everyone unanimously agreed was of "restaurant quality", to christabel's amazing bak kut teh soup tt was finished even when everyone was already full, to ben's loaning us of his place for the entire event, to all the other people who helped with the preparations and cooking and cleaning up...
haha i think i did the least actually. all i did was go and eat.
but nonetheless, yes the reunion dinner was A-MAZING. and for all our imagined logistical problems, everything worked out just fine. :)
and now, for the requisite photos.
before: master chef #1 zineng (okay, there were a lot of master chefs, but he was the first one i saw coz he was using ben's stove) making his erm... "complicated speciality" involving red and orange peppers (ben's description, not mine).
after: food glorious food. ...you say this is for 20 people? more like an army, can?
I WAAAAAANT!!! (yeah yeah. go ahead and start with the whole "you and food AGAIN" jokes.)
sulynn and i... waiting. come on i wanna eat NOW NOW NOW!!!
LOW HEI!!!!!!!!!!
and then the ah beng moments - squatting outside ben's house in 4 degree temperature to drink cheng tng. only singaporeans, man.
speaking of ah bengs.... left is boon ping, middle is siang sheng, right is kelvin. but don't let looks fool you. one is cap 4.9, one is nspi... but i think all 3 guai gias one lah. go library and mug everyday. heh heh heh.
and some more people pictures! peiling, szewei, alvin and ben...
me and christabel...
and me and esther.
the girls on exchange! from left to right: sulynn, diana, me, jo-ann, esther, simin, christabel, liling and may may.
outside shot #1: edward, simin (erm i think guy behind her is kelvin), boon ping (figure sitting down), may may (in background), bang yao (guy looking up), zineng (guy whom you can only see the spectacles of), me and diana.
and outside shot #2: christabel, simin, kelvin, boon ping, zineng (facing away from camera), me and ben.
heh heh heh.
...lastly, ban luck!
once again, happy chinese new year!!!
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
ok. this is the requisite chinese new year post.
and of course, this chinese new year in vancouver is far different from chinese new year back in singapore. for one, there's no need to go visiting relatives (what relatives do i have here anyway?), or in my case, helping my mom prepare our home, lunch, dinner etc etc etc for the relatives to come a'visiting. no family, no parents, no cousins, no joanne and denise to bug as i always do when they come round on cny, and we all hide in the guest room while my dad yells for me to "come say hi to all the uncles and aunties" and to help do this and tt and this and tt. no long-lost uncles and aunties, from those tt i am so fond of to those tt show their faces once a year in the mere name of "tradition" (on a side note: i don't believe tt there is such a thing as "too busy" to visit someone more than once a year. there is however, such a thing as "the value of family", which unfortunately a lot of people don't seem to consider as important now). and yeah, the requisite no ang paos, no bak kwa, no pineapples tarts and kueh lapis. haha, not tt i am a big fan of everything, and i can live without the ang paos, but i do miss my cashewnut candy. :(
nonetheless, this cny though different, was in no way incomparable to my cny back home. instead of family, you have friends. and even with no superwoman mom to oversee evrything, we still had some pretty awesome organisers and cooks. like alvin who almost singlehandedly oversaw everything from the buying of all the food to the making of the yusheng (yes, we had yusheng with heaploads of AWESOME fresh vancouver salmon!!!), to siang sheng and his vermicelli, to boon ping and his hidden talent for making fried glutinous rice to which everyone unanimously agreed was of "restaurant quality", to christabel's amazing bak kut teh soup tt was finished even when everyone was already full, to ben's loaning us of his place for the entire event, to all the other people who helped with the preparations and cooking and cleaning up...
haha i think i did the least actually. all i did was go and eat.
but nonetheless, yes the reunion dinner was A-MAZING. and for all our imagined logistical problems, everything worked out just fine. :)
and now, for the requisite photos.
before: master chef #1 zineng (okay, there were a lot of master chefs, but he was the first one i saw coz he was using ben's stove) making his erm... "complicated speciality" involving red and orange peppers (ben's description, not mine).
after: food glorious food. ...you say this is for 20 people? more like an army, can?
I WAAAAAANT!!! (yeah yeah. go ahead and start with the whole "you and food AGAIN" jokes.)
sulynn and i... waiting. come on i wanna eat NOW NOW NOW!!!
LOW HEI!!!!!!!!!!
and then the ah beng moments - squatting outside ben's house in 4 degree temperature to drink cheng tng. only singaporeans, man.
speaking of ah bengs.... left is boon ping, middle is siang sheng, right is kelvin. but don't let looks fool you. one is cap 4.9, one is nspi... but i think all 3 guai gias one lah. go library and mug everyday. heh heh heh.
and some more people pictures! peiling, szewei, alvin and ben...
me and christabel...
and me and esther.
the girls on exchange! from left to right: sulynn, diana, me, jo-ann, esther, simin, christabel, liling and may may.
outside shot #1: edward, simin (erm i think guy behind her is kelvin), boon ping (figure sitting down), may may (in background), bang yao (guy looking up), zineng (guy whom you can only see the spectacles of), me and diana.
and outside shot #2: christabel, simin, kelvin, boon ping, zineng (facing away from camera), me and ben.
heh heh heh.
...lastly, ban luck!
once again, happy chinese new year!!!
# posted by Kitana @ 1/30/2006 04:46:00 PM 
